Re: [whatwg/encoding] Explain the relationship between windows-1252, Latin1, and ASCII (PR #345)

aphillips left a comment (whatwg/encoding#345)

I added the tracker label to remind myself to come back and make a longer comment/suggestion. While Encoding really doesn't need to present the "complete and accurate history of character encodings" to explain the relationship between 1252 and L1, I do think that the text proposed here might not be clear enough/direct enough. Users of "other software" still often make use of 8859-1 as an isomorphic encoding outside of the Web context and I have encountered people who are pedantic about the Official Meaning of the 8859-1 label. I think the note being added here could be tighter and clearer about this. In particular, I find it misleading (even if factual) to say that ISO/IEC 8859-1 didn't provide mappings for the C0/C1 range and DEL. Every encoder I've ever met has mapped these isomorphically to Unicode, which puts controls at those code points.

This is the kind of thing which might merit a short external document in the I18N space so that Encoding can point (for people who want history) while focusing on "Latin1 is not an isomorphic encoding on the Web, eh?"

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